As the spring semester is off to a start, high school seniors eagerly await for spring to approach in hopes of receiving their college acceptance letters. For the Ivy League schools, the percentage of applicants has greatly increased and reached record numbers from past years.
Brown received about 31,000 applicants; the highest number the school has ever received and follows a 50 percent increase over the last 3 years.
Harvard obtained the highest number of applicants, 35,000, with a 15 percent increase from last year.
